There is a coal mining town in the Eastern United States that was once home to over one thousand people, most of them members of the secret society that founded the town. When the coal fires started throughout the mines fifty years ago, those that didn’t die abandoned the town. The coal fires burn to this day covering the streets in ash. Those of you familiar with the Silent Hill video games and movie may think that I’m talking about that town, but I’m not – this article is about the very real town that Silent Hill was based on. Welcome to Centralia Pennsylvania…

In 1521 the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León and his crew discovered an island covered in human bones. They named it Cayo Hueso, which translates literally as “bone key”. Regardless of the human remains, the island was settled. In later years it became a major shipping hub, but with shipping comes pirates, and with pirates comes murder and hangings. Five hundred years later, the bones and the name Cayo Hueso are long forgotten, and the island has a new name. Welcome to Key West, Florida…

“I had rather face the entire British Army than to spend another night with the Bell Witch”, those are the words of General Andrew Jackson, who would later go on to become President of the United States. He and his troops had found themselves in circumstances that required they spend the night at the farm. It was a night that haunted him the rest of his life. Welcome to the John Bell farm, home of the Bell Witch Haunting…

I don’t generally revisit the same sort of haunting so soon after posting an article, but due to the overwhelming positive response we received, and by positive I mean 16,000 readers unable to get to sleep, I looked long and hard and I’ve finally found it, something to follow up Robert The Doll. That’s right… “Dear God! There’s another one?!” Meet Annabelle…

Imagine one evening you’re visiting the grave of a deceased ancestor; a man approaches you and begins a brief polite conversation. He’s as real and as solid as you or me, but mid sentence he vanishes right before your eyes. What you just experienced is an extremely rare type of ghost known as a “lepke”. Lepkes are spirits of the dead just like ghosts with the exception that they can appear in physical form, and there are less than a handful of places in the world where repeated sightings of these ghosts have occurred. If you just saw one, get the hell out, because you’re standing in one of the planets most haunted locations. Welcome to the Union Cemetery…

There are some real places in this world where everything just lines up for the perfect horror movie. A twisting narrow road through dense forest with an utterly creepy name haunted by the angry spirits of lynched highwaymen; add to that a creepy lake with a creepy abandoned cabin, numerous murders including beheadings and a large number of wandering vicious wild animals, and you’ve got yourself one hell of a movie; except its real. Welcome to Shades of Death Road…

Imagine in the dead of night being woken from sleep in your luxury hotel room to the sounds of banging from the closet. It’s somebody pounding on the door from inside the closet! Either you bolt out of the room, down the hall, and out of the resort never to return, or you summon up the courage to open the door – but there’s nothing in the closet, just a retched smell that wasn’t there when you hung your clothes. Welcome to Room 5…

The city of Portland is lovingly referred to as Beervana for its numerous microbreweries. The city has more brewpubs per capita than any other American city, but that statistic is also closely tied to the city’s dark past. You’ll never hear Portland referred to as “massive haunted underground labyrinth city”, but without that, it never would have become Beervana. Welcome to the Shanghai Tunnels…

A previous article in this blog got me thinking about a very specific phenomenon, Cry Baby Bridges When reading about the Overtoun Bridge and the infant tragedies that occurred there, I thought back on an old term my grandmother had used to describe why she didn’t want us to cross the small walking bridge on the outskirts of the town where our cottage was located. She had said “it’s a cry baby bridge”. I never did cross the bridge, but I do know what “cry baby bridge” means. It means simply that an infant died in a tragedy at that site, and that to this day you can still hear it crying as you cross. There are over a hundred of these bridges all across America, obviously I won’t be covering the hundreds of bridges that fall under this category, but I will cover the five most haunted bridges in the US’ most haunted state, welcome to numerous bridges across Ohio….

The Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida is in itself not haunted, not in the classical sense, but it does have (according to many) some very evil spirits that call it home, and they all live in one doll. Meet Robert…..

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DISCLAIMER

Reading enough of the contents within these articles you will quickly realize that the dark things on the other side of the veil are real.
The witnesses of the events within these articles range from groups of a hundred people at a time, to trained officials (police, rescue teams, etc), to Presidents and Statesmen.
Whatever it is on the other side of the veil, its real and its not safe. If you choose to visit these locations you do so at your own risk.